Thanks for the offer
No, it wont make any difference, youre quite welcome to leave the page open - the problem only seems to occur when a number of people try to search/post/view a thread at exactly the same moment, which forms a queue - when its very busy, requests at the bottom of the queue "time out".
Because it all slows down, this causes people to re-click a link or button, which makes the queue longer.... which then makes it lock up occasionally
No worries, all will be sorted....